I have this memory of being on an elevator, having an awkward conversation with someone who wanted me to tell them what I ‘wrote about.’ Everything I write is about you, I said. I’m in San Mateo, sitting in a Starbuck’s near my sister’s house, dealing a little with my email account getting hacked, and [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 28, 2007
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would have to crack open “The Landmark Herodotus” and get as far as Page 41 to [...]
December 18, 2007
All He Can Do Is Give Us Desires
And he may have even more trouble than Luria’s peasants in seeing himself as others do. After all, there is no one looking back at the television viewer. He is alone, though he, and his brain, may be too distracted to notice it. The reader is also alone, but the N.E.A. reports that readers are [...]
December 11, 2007
The Joke That Tells You Your Future: Day 2 of the Literary Writers Conference
A few days before the conference, as I went through my magazine files, I found an old copy of Might. Might was a magazine Dave Eggers edited in San Francisco in the early ’90s, and in this particular issue, he sold every space in the magazine to advertisers, from the front cover to the masthead. [...]
December 4, 2007
Ending Your Days Of Bachelor Loneliness With A Wild Husband
10:28 AM thiago: dude i need a BF 10:29 AM hooking up casually is exhausting haha me: it is why do you say that? 10:30 AM what happened? thiago: haha emotionally exhausting that is 10:31 AM nothing happened, im just bummed out that i liked the boy and i wont ever see him again me: [...]
December 4, 2007
Short Ghost Story As Told To Me By The Clerk At Cumberland Farms
1:30 AM, Cumberland Farms, North Amherst, MA Yeah, Lynrd Skynrd? Racist hicks. They’re my brother’s favorite. The music is like this but then. . .he had this girlfriend who loved them. Freebird was her favorite song. And then later when she was killed and we had to go to her funeral, as we drove to [...]
December 3, 2007
Rebel I Love You Even More
More poems up at Rebel I Love You. Please keep sending your orphaned love poems. Instructions are over on the site.
